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PARAMETRIC STUDY OF AN IGBT COLD PLATE AND AFFECT OF DEVICE LEVEL MODELLING ON SYSTEM LEVEL THERMAL PREDICTIONS
(2016-02-29)
In power electronics, as there is continuous increase in performance of the electronic devices, simultaneously the size of the components used in these devices keep on decreasing. This has resulted in increased power ...
“EVERY GOOD MAN IS A QUAKER, AND THAT NONE BUT GOOD MEN ARE QUAKERS”: TRANSATLANTIC QUAKER HUMANITARIANS, DISABILITY, AND MARKETING ENLIGHTENED REFORM, 1730-1834
(2016-02-24)
This dissertation explores how Quaker humanitarians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries actively absorbed and employed emerging Enlightenment discourses about “disability” and human dependency as a means to build ...
Numerical Modeling of an Alloy Droplet Deposition with Non-Equilibrium Solidification
(2016-05-16)
Droplet deposition is a process of extensive relevance to the microfabrication industry. Various bonding and film deposition methods utilize single or multiple droplet impingements on a substrate with subsequent splat ...
Teachers' Perspectives on the Efficacy of Inclusion for the General Education Student
(2016-05-11)
Laws require special education students to be educated in the least restricted environment, which often means placing special education students with their general education peers in inclusion classroom settings. Inclusion ...
Assessing Residents' Perceptions of Waterfront Landscapes in Las Colinas Urban Center, Irving, Texas
(2016-05-11)
The purpose of this study is to assess the residents’ perceptions of the waterfront landscapes in man-made environments, specifically in the Las Colinas Urban Center, Irving, Texas. From in-depth interviews and passive ...
Representations of the Extended Poincare Superalgebras in Four Dimensions
(2016-05-13)
Eugene Wigner used the Poincare group to induce representations from the fundamental internal space-time symmetries of (special) relativistic quantum particles. Wigner’s students spent considerable amount of time translating ...
EFFECTS OF NUMERACY AND FINANCIAL LITERACY ON UNDESIRABLE FINANCIAL AND RELATED ACADEMIC OUTCOMES IN COLLEGE STUDENTS
(2016-05-31)
Numeracy was a better predictor of financial delinquency than financial literacy. The relationship between numeracy and undesirable academic effects was fully mediated by financial delinquency. It was also found that in a ...
ENHANCING PRODUCTIVITY BY USING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING APPLICATIONS IN PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
(2016-05-16)
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a technology and associated
set of processes to produce, communicate, and analyze building models.
BIM is a new concept within the construction industry. The objective of this
thesis ...
CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR AIR-SIDE ECONOMIZATION, DIRECT AND INDIRECT EVAPORATIVE COOLING AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS APPLICATIONS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT DATA CENTERS
(2016-05-12)
The skyrocketing growth in data centers, facilities that house information technology (IT) equipment for storage, management and distribution of data while striving for 24/7/365 operation with 100% up-time, has accounted ...
Discriminating Parkinson's disease using functional connectivity and brain network analysis
(2016-05-10)
In this study, we explored the use of functional connectivity patterns in fMRI data to classify subjects on the basis of Parkinson's disease. We explore various brain networks and features. We partition our fMRI data in 5 ...